Maastricht - The Netherlands
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member superstein
N 50° 51.084 E 005° 41.478
31U E 689435 N 5636751
The seventeenth-century town hall of Maastricht
Waymark Code: WM5BYN
Location: Limburg, Netherlands
Date Posted: 12/15/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
Views: 54

In 1656 the Magistrature, as the city council was then called, commissioned the Hague architect Pieter Post (1608 - 1669) to draw up a budget and produce a wooden maquette of a new town hall. Post was a leading architect in the sober classical style of North and South Holland; it was a style that the 'Hollander' rulers in Maastricht prized very highly. Post's work owes its power mainly to the system of measurements that he adhered to consistently. They were geometrical proportions based on Euclid and which had previously been adopted by Italian master builders such as Palladio and Serlio. Post applied these Renaissance measurements both in his facades and ground plans.

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Name: Maastricht Town hall

Address:
Markt 78
Maastricht, Limburg Netherlands
6201 BZ


Date of Construction: 1659

Architect: Pieter Post

Memorials/Commemorations/Dedications:
Aujourd'hui les Etat-unis était à l'honneur car drapeau aux côtés de celui de Nederland et de la ville de Maastricht


Web Site for City/Town/Municipality: [Web Link]

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